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Description: Xenia Declaration What is the Xenia Declaration? Xenia is Greek for “guest-friendship”, the ancient Greek virtue of hospitality.

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Xenia is Greek for “guest-friendship” , the ancient Greek virtue of hospitality. We may recognize modern words deriving from it and ones that are similar to it. The most notable being “xenophobia”, which is the fear of strangers and foreigners, derived from “xenos” which means “foreigner.” Xenophobia is, in many ways, the opposite of the virtue of xenia. Zeus is sometimes called Zeus Xenios, or protector of travelers. He protected the religious obligation to be hospitable to strangers, and for said stranger

This is a declaration in a similar spirit of the Declaration 127 in modern Heathenry, except for those of us who are modern Greek polytheists. We also stand with the Declaration of Deeds , which is a similar effort to ours.

Individuals, groups on social media, and Hellenic pagan/polytheistic organizations are encouraged to add their own signature of support. The hope is that this will be an international effort of all diverse traditions and ideas among all of us. It is likely that the one thing we all have in common is that we honor the Greek gods. But that alone should be enough.

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